Studying the Isms

And what about all the movements, all the ideals? Always new isms, new fads and we’re told, “This is it!”

So we say we already know. We know from the krovim. You know, when I was a boy Socialism was the wave of the future. I had a fight when I was a young boy with somebody. I was for socialism and I was beaten up by the other one. I came home bleeding from my nose.

Everyone thought that in the course of time it would conquer the world. Even rabbis, old rabbanim, used to speak on the bimos and say ‘socialism min haTorah minayin’ to prove that the Torah also approves of it.